Hanging about
This isn’t my best photo of the day – that would be one of the shots I took of a very obliging young male Common Darter. And it isn’t my best find of the day either – that would be … Continued
Unexpected
“Unexpected Hairstreak in the leafhopper area…” I was on my way to Grafton Wood this morning, for another attempt on the Emerald Damselflies, when I suddenly realised that I couldn’t quite be bothered to walk across four fields and a … Continued
A flutter of Admirals
R and I went to Stratford this morning to run errands and eat cake, and I offset the cake a little by taking a rapid walk down to Weir Brake lock in search of dragons. I didn’t find any, probably … Continued
Small Skipper
Yesterday I took a walk around Tilly’s field, the hay meadow that’s about a hundred metres from our house, and found not only Small and Essex Skippers, but scores – maybe hundreds – of grasshoppers and crickets, in different stages … Continued
Marbled White
One of the big advantages of having a garden that looks more like an overgrown field than a tended area is that meadow butterflies are wont to wander into it. For the past ten days we’ve had Meadow Browns and … Continued